- Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
- Economic Systems and Logistics Management
- Global Financial Crisis and Policies
- Global trade and economics
- Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Russia and Soviet political economy
- Ethics in Business and Education
- International Development and Aid
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Banking Systems and Strategies
- Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Economic Issues in Ukraine
- Corruption and Economic Development
- Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
- Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
- Digital and Traditional Archives Management
- Digital and Cyber Forensics
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Spam and Phishing Detection
- Management and Marketing Education
- Taxation and Legal Issues
Freie Universität Berlin
2021-2025
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2019-2020
Abstract This study attempts to detect papers originating from the Russia‐based paper mill ‘International Publisher’ LLC. A total of 1,063 offers purchase co‐authorship on a fraudulent published 2019 mid‐2022 123mi.ru website were analysed. identifies at least 451 that are potentially linked mill, including one preprint, duplication and 16 republications erroneously in hijacked journals. Evidence suspicious provenance is provided: matches title, number slots, year publication, country...
Abstract This study presents and explains the phenomenon of indexjacking , which involves systematic infiltration hijacked journals into international indexing databases, with Scopus being one most infiltrated among these databases. Through an analysis known lists journals, identified at least 67 that have penetrated since 2013. Of these, 33 indexed unauthorized content in 23 compromised homepage link journal's profile, while 11 did both. As September 2023, 41 are still compromising data...
Research paper mills are covert organizations that provide low-quality or fabricated manuscripts to paying clients. As members of the United2Act Working Group, we propose 5 key research questions on require resourcing and support.
ABSTRACT Fraudulent published papers were once thought to be rare, but in recent years, there has been growing awareness of coordinated activities by for‐profit organizations that charge authors a fee sell articles and submit them reputable journals. These are known as paper mills. We reflect here on how Mind, Brain Education suffered from such an attack 2022 2023, discussing what we have learnt this experience about mills might operate biomedical social sciences, identify red flags article...
We first describe the phenomenon of academic paper mill, a kind large-scale fraud in which authors pay to have work published reputable journals. give examples some known mills and discuss ‘red flags’ that characterise their outputs. Most early were biomedical computational sciences so are less familiar many psychologists. In next section, we broker company/paper Tanu.pro, discovered by author, was identified use fake email addresses. This mill placed six outputs Journal Community...
Background The study examines the prevalence of plagiarism in hijacked journals, a category problematic journals that have proliferated over past decade.
We first describe the phenomenon of academic paper mill, a kind large-scale fraud in which authors pay to have work published reputable journals. give examples some known mills and discuss ‘red flags’ that characterise their outputs. Most early were biomedical computational sciences so are less familiar many psychologists. In next section, we broker company/paper Tanu.pro, discovered by author, was identified use fake email addresses. This mill placed six outputs Journal Community...
This paper reviews the proliferation of hijacked journals in scientific communication. Hijacked mimic genuine journals, deceive potential authors, use more sophisticated methods fraud and compromise content information legitimate international national scientometric databases. The lists are not replenished regularly this creates a challenge to Russian academic community. In order warn authors characteristics presents recommendations on how avoid fake journals.
This study attempts to detect papers originating from the Russia-based paper mill International publisher LLC. A total of 1009 offers published during 2019-2021 on 123mi.ru website were analysed. The allowed us identify at least 434 that are potentially linked including one preprint, a duplication and 15 republications erroneously in hijacked journals. Evidence suspicious provenance is provided: matches title, number coauthorship slots, year publication, country journal, slot similarities...
The goal is to study the prevalence of citajacked papers: papers in authentic scientific journals citing hijacked journals, academic literature. A Citejacked detector was designed as a part Problematic Paper Screener (https://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac/problematic-paper-screener/citejacked) trace if references articles originating from infiltrate communication. full-text search performed between November 2021 and January 2022 Dimensions database using name 1 12 journals. analysis...
Abstract According to an estimate, there are at least 400,000 papers in the scientific literature originating from paper mills, which for-profit companies that guarantee publication of low-quality papers. There is evidence such accompanied by various forms misconduct, including plagiarism, image duplication, falsification, and fabrication data. These cited included systematic reviews meta-analyses, have negative consequences for science related disciplines. The community has fragmented...
Fraudulent published papers used to be thought rare, but in recent years there has been growing awareness of coordinated activities by organizations that charge authors a fee plant articles reputable journals. These are known as paper mills. We reflect here on how Mind, Brain and Education suffered from such an attack 2022 2023, discussing what we have learnt this experience about mills might operate social sciences, spot signs article is fraudulent, steps taken prevent attacks future.
During last decade Russian research is characterized, on the one hand, by a rather high level of academic dishonesty, and other, activity some scientific community to fight misconduct, which should lead adjustment norms admissibility plagiarism or other forms violation ethics. However, sufficiently large part not only tolerant plagiarism, but also demonstrates protest reaction establishment obvious unacceptability plagiarism. We analyzed texts decisions dissertation councils requests for...